Task 1a- Rewritten CV

TRAINING

1999-2007        Rascals Theatre School

2005-2007        GCSE Drama- Grade B                  Valentines High School

2007-2009                 BTEC National Diploma                  Barking College                   

                         in Performing Arts

2009-2011                 Foundation Degree                         Middlesex Univiersity

in Drama and Theatre

production

THEATRE CREDITS

2002

December      Her Majesty’s Theatre (Dance)        Rascals Theatre School

2003

October          Sadlers Wells Theatre (Dance)        Rascals Theatre School

2004

October          The Royal Albert Hall (Dance)         Rascals Theatre School

2005

September      The Royal Albert Hall (Dance)         Rascals Theatre School

2006

January           Sadlers Wells Theatre (Dance)       Rascals Theatre School

2007

November       T.I.E (Theatre in Education)            Barking College

                         Directed by Mark Civil                    

2008

February         Bites                                                Barking College

                         Written and Directed                      The Broadway Theatre

                         by Kay Adshead

May                 Stuffed                                             Barking College

                        Written and Directed                       The Broadway Theatre

                        by Kay Adshead

November       War Song                                        Barking College

                         Written and Directed                      The Broadway Theatre

                         by Kay Adshead

2009                 Squash                                            Barking College

May                  Directed by Mark Civil                     The Broadway Theatre

2009                The Crucible (Mary Warren)             Middlesex University

November       Directed by Siobhan Dunne             The Arts Depot

2010                 Tens

June                 Written and Directed by                   Middlesex University                                                                                                  

                         Student at Mdx. Uni.                         The Arts Depot

                

OTHER CREDITS

1999-2007               Variety shows once a year in various theatres with Rascals Theatre School (The Broadway,Theatre, Stratford Circus Theatre, Thameside Theatre, The Kenneth More Theatre)

2007-2008       A part of the front of house team at The Broadway Theatre.

May 2010      National Movie awards (Crowd dancer) The Royal Festival Hall

                       ITV 1 Live

July 2011       Extra in the movie Street Dance 2 3D

                

SKILLS

Street dance, very good at reading and script learning

2nd Uni session

on 18/10/11, the session at uni was very interesting. We discussed how important it is to be reflective on yourself, especially being somebody who is practicing a profession.

These are the 2 main things that today was based on:

-          noticing

-          knowledge

As discussed, noticing can mean more than one thing; looking at yourself through someone else’s eyes and how other people see you and your responsibilities. Also, this quote was mentioned to us: “See the familiar unfamiliarly and unfamiliar as familiar”- I am still trying to find a clearer way of defining what that means, although I do understand it somewhere in the back of my head, I just cant find the words to explain it.

Moving onto what we discussed about knowledge; this word consists of various things and some people believe that knowledge is only their own perception, which I believe may be incorrect because in order to gain knowledge it may be possible to learn something knew. If not, then knowledge is only the amount you’re able to see in something.

Continuing onto reflection, I think that what ever positive or negative or negative the situation, you should always reflect and look at how you can learn more. For example, we did an exercise where we partnered up balancing cane sticks with each other using only our index fingers, we then did it in groups of four and afterwards reflected on how we felt, what we could have done better and what skills we already had and used.

An interesting thing I definitely took in from today was form the spiral we were told about. Above, below and both sides of the spiral contained what you did or your level of reflection. The top was Concrete Experience meaning doing or having experience, right side was Reflective Observation which was reviewing or reflecting on the experience.

Below at the bottom of the spiral said Abstract Conceptualisation which basically means to conclude and learn from the experience; the left side was Active Experiment which meant planning and trying out what you have learn. I believe that personally for me in that particular exercise I would say that reflective observation and active experiment most related to me; as the second time we did it in groups of four I had more of an understanding of the required task as we had just done it previously in pairs. By quickly reflecting, I briefly knew what I should and shouldn’t do the next time round. This was just a small example of reflection, but its definitely made me realise exactly how you should reflect on as much as you can for your own benefit.

I felt more comfortable in this session as faces were more familiar and I think by being more comfortable with each other certainly makes things more understandable within the course.

Evaluation of performance

On Friday 14th Oct my dance group and I had a performance at a show in Chelsea Theatre. As it was quite a journey away, we all decided to go through some last minute notes whilst on the train.
 
The only part of our set which I was slightly concerned about was the finale routine which was a short 'house' style piece. The girls in the group are developing dancers so are still gaining knowledge within different street styles. Having said that, I do think they have developed hugely throughout the last two years.
 
When we arrived at the venue in Chelsea, it was not at all what we had expected. We was going to be performing in a very intimate space. I think it only sat between 90-100 seats. At thus point we were extremely eager to get up and rehearse in the space which was not a proper stage. I believe we all enjoyed watching everyone's techs as we were able to see the different talent; and for me personally, it made me feel as though we had to step up our game and train harder.
 
I must admit that after changing into our costumes we looked more like a group and after our tech was when I started to feel more confident. I decided for this show's costumes to be blue jeans, black blazers, white top, and white trainers. It looked really good.
 
Whilst waiting in the wings to go on, I felt my nerves kicking in! We had rehearsed enough but the girls still panic before going on stage and I certainly could not allow my nerves to show that they were getting the better of me or else would throw the rest of the group off. Some were still asking last minute questions, which I didn't appreciate because this was also the time where I would concentrate on myself.
 
Coming off stage was a relieve as it went well although I feel it could have been better as their were a couple of mistakes, but watching it back it actually looked much better on camera than I thought it was. Now its time to reflect back and see what things we can work harder.
 
Straight onto our next set!! As we may have a couple Christmas shows coming up!

No Laptop!

I am currently writing this on my phone as I will not have access to a laptop for maybe the next few days! I have a performance with a dance group tomorrow in Chelsea so have been rehearsing nearly every day this week. I have to point out how strict rehearsals can be when it’s close to show day; really we should just be running routines at this point and not going over choreography over and over again. Some of the girls you can see they really practice in their own time but others just expect it to be easy when they do not take it seriously! (Especially as we are trying to make this group better) In order for the group to improve and develop, we film us at the end of each rehearsal and post it on our closed facebook page so members only can see. Here, we can watch ourselves and see where we go wrong or what looks good and what doesn't; we will then use next rehearsal to fix it.
 
I hope tomorrows show goes well and hopefully it will get filmed so I can post it up!
 
In the meantime I have been finishing working on a video clip which was a uni task; but as mentioned I have no access to laptop or pc at the moment so this is the link if you would like to watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuAL2X3hiX0
 
Please leave a comment and tell me what you think!

Professional Practice

Apologies for not blogging sooner- I have finally got the time to sit down to write. Last Tuesday was the first campus session of the new professional practice, work based learning course I have taken on to top up my degree. I recognised a few faces that I met at the induction. After being guided through the module handbook we were assigned a task in groups to do a presentation. This was mainly on the way social media changes people etc. I generally enjoy being involved in debates because it allows me to get my perosnal opinions across. 

Aswell as having coursework in each module, we are also expected to complete other tasks which are written in the handbook. The one I have really been thinking about and concentrating on through out past week is a video clip each student has to create explaining our personal thoughts and views on this course so far. This is to test our editing skills and also help us learn how to edit. During the past one week I have dedicated some of my time to deciding the concept of how I would like my clip to be. Although it only needs to be short, I want it to be creative and as a dancer I thought it would interesting to combine what I am saying with dance. For example, as I am now in the process of completing this task, I have decided to have no voice in the video; there will be text on screen and clips of dancing to an instrumental. I am going to be uploading this onto my blog as soon as it is completed. I am always determined to put in a lot of effort even into something very small.

I have also been very busy working and rehearsals for my all female dance group as we have a performance on Oct 14th at Chelsea Theatre which is in a few days time. Rehearsals for this have been a little tough as we only had a couple of weeks to prepare for this. Not only have I had endless rehearsals, but all my administration jobs for the two companies I work for aswell as looking for more performance opportunities. I have been extremely keen to keep my blog updated but there are times when I am so drained but still need to keep up my physical energy in order to attend rehearsals. 

My video clip should be ready to show by the end of this week as tomorrow before rehearsals, it is what I will be working on!

As from now, I hope to post atleast 2 to 3 times a week.

Thanks all for reading :-)